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Web Evaluation - - Because Anyone Can Publish on the Web! By Pam Berger

 A new book for young students on web evaluation (excellent)-- The Strangest Dinosaur That Never Was by Marilyn Arnone

Who is the authority? Is the information biased? What is the author's expertise? 

A few websites for students to evaluate:

The Tornado Project
Encyclopedia Mythica
 Smoking From all Sides
                                

Web pages on frogs for elementary students to evaluate off line (print them out and photocopy)
      The questionable frog page: The Froggy Page
        The reliable frog page: Exploratorium: The Amazing, Adaptable Frog

Listings of questionable Web sites

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  ...an excellent evaluation checklist with examples 

Resources

• Evaluating Web Pages: A WebQuest
  ...a Web Quest for high school students to evaluate sites from different perspectives
• Strategies to Teach Web Evaluation
  ...simple strategies for Web evaluation
• QUICK: quality information checklist
  ...an excellent tutorial for kids

Checklists and evaluation tools

• Evaluating Web Resources
  ...a great checklist that looks at different types of web pages 
• Blue Web'n  Evaluation Criteria
  ...a basic evaluation list
• Ed's Oasis Evaluation Criteria
  ...excellent online evaluation forms for teachers and students
• Kathy Schrock's Evaluation Forms
  ...student evaluation forms along with great links
• John Henderson, Ithaca College Library
  ...a guide for critical thinking on the Web

More evaluation sites

•   Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources 
      ...address the problems and issues related to teaching and using critical thinking skills to evaluate Internet resources

To learn about rumors and hoaxes on the Internet, look at Urban Legends